Modern Business Quotes

• In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

  David Ogilvy

  Inspirational, Business, Creativity

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• Modern business must have its finger continuously on the public pulse. It must understand the changes in the public mind and be prepared to interpret itself fairly and eloquently to changing opinion.

  Edward Bernays

  Mind, Pulse, Opinion

  Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”

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• I grew up in a modern business environment and did not experience the kind of prejudice that my mother and grandfather experienced.

  Lewis Schiff

  Mother, Grandfather, Prejudice

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Who was the greatest business man ever. . . The greatest salesman? Advertiser? Who? . . . It was Jesus. . . Jesus was the founder of modern business. . . he picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organization that conquered the world!

  Paul Harding

  Jesus, Men, Organization

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• Work is, after all, not a busy running back and forth in established grooves, though that is the essence of our modern business and academic life, but the supreme energy and disciplined curiosity required to cut new grooves.

  Hugh Nibley

  Life, Running, Business

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• Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making.

  Richard Florida

  Work, Creativity, Iron

  Richard Florida (2014). “The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited: Revised and Expanded”, p.8, Basic Books

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• In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

  William Wordsworth

  Money, Business, Men

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• Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business.

  Ursula Burns

  Running, Appreciate, Levels

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• A century and a half after its birth, the modern business corporation, an artificial person made in the image of a human psychopath, now is seeking to remake real people in its image.

  Joel Bakan

  Real, People, Half

  Joel Bakan (2005). “The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• Only communist regimes have churned out more jargon than modern business.

  Corinne Maier

  Business, Jargon, Modern

  Corinne Maier (2007). “Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay”, p.13, Vintage

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• E-mails are the cancer of modern business.

  John Caudwell

  Cancer, Mail, Modern

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• Equal interchange of goods and service between buyer and seller is the keynote of tomorrow's business world when the vision of the modern business man awakens him to the wisdom of writing that policy into his code of ethics.

  Walter Russell

  Business, Writing, Men

  "The Man who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe". Book by Glenn Clark, 1946.

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